Chapter 564
Kangding City is really not big. It took less than half an hour to ride a motorcycle through the city.
When we came to the mountain road, the scenery was really amazing. The roadside was almost covered with azaleas, which were in full bloom.
Zhao Qin stopped several times to take photos with Chen Xue.
Awang also stopped the car and looked at the two people with smiles on their faces. Occasionally, he would help take a photo of the two of them.
The originally one-hour ride ended up taking nearly two hours to reach the edge of the mountain.
There will be wooden houses at the bottom of the mountain. Awang parked the car next to the wooden house and simply locked it.
Zhao Qin has always been curious. Not to mention here, in many big cities now, such thefts are common. Ten years later, there are still people who specialize in battery theft.
Why is Awang not afraid of his motorcycle being stolen?
Not to mention locking it, you can easily do it with a large steel bar pliers. If you understand a little about the circuit principles of motorcycles, you can still start the engine without a key.
This stop lasts most of the day, why doesn’t anyone care about it?
If you ask Awang, he will say that no one in Kangding dares to touch his things. He only pretends to be cool and won’t give any accurate words.
It was Agula who explained it to him.
“What we Tibetans despise most are thieves. Maybe there are some who fight and rob, but there are really not many thieves.
Not to mention two cars, the thousands of yaks at home are kept free-range in the mountains and can be easily taken away. However, over the course of a year, apart from those who died of illness, there was not much loss. ”
Well, the people are simple and don’t pick up any miscellaneous things on the road.
However, this is only for Tibetans. Foreigners who came before were robbed without even having their clothes left.
We can’t just say that Tibetans are xenophobic. The main reason is that when we first started to interact with each other, the two sides were unequal. The locals were completely deceived, and it was really impossible to make them have any favorable impression of outsiders.
The mountains here are obviously gentler and lush, with more trees. Poplar, spruce, and even rhododendron trees can grow up to three meters high.
“Aqin, here you go.”
Awang broke off a straight branch from a fallen dead tree and sharpened one end with his knife.
“what?”
“Go to an area with shrubs and tap it to scare away snakes. In places with a lot of fallen leaves, matsutake mushrooms are invisible. You can use this tap to find the newly emerged matsutake mushrooms by feel.”
Although Zhao Qin didn’t understand much, he still took over.
Awang cut another one and gave it to Chen Xue. The three of them each took one. Agula separated when they went up the mountain, agreeing to meet here at noon.
Awang walked with a stick and knocked it on the ground. The two of them also imitated.
After a moment, Chen Xue finally couldn’t help but laugh, “Does it look like three blind people walking?”
“Hahaha, we are just blind people exploring the road now.” Awang also thought this description was quite good and responded with a smile.
The next moment, Awang squatted down with a sigh, pushed aside the fallen leaves on the ground with his hands, and waved the two of them to come forward and take a look, “Now, this is the matsutake. This one is lucky enough to have its head exposed, and some are just a bulge on the ground.” Bag,
The method of digging is similar to Cordyceps. Use a stick to insert it into the bottom. Be sure not to break it. If it breaks, you can only eat it by yourself. ”
Zhao Qin and Ah Xue looked at each other and smiled. They both understood what the other was thinking. They didn’t want to sell for money, they were just digging for their own food.
Seeing Awang dig out one, Zhao Qin and Ah Xue thought they understood it and started to look for it themselves.
“Wow, I found one.” Chen Xue’s cheerful voice sounded.
Zhao Qin took a closer look and found that this tree was easy to find because the fat head was exposed and there were no fallen leaves to cover it.
“It’s really amazing.” As for my wife, if she doesn’t praise herself, why should she wait for others to praise her?
Hearing what he said, Chen Xue became even more happy. She refused to let him do it and insisted on digging it out by herself. Although she didn’t care about the broken ones, it would be better if she could dig out the whole ones.
Therefore, Ashue’s movements were very light and took more time.
Zhao Qin knocked the stick in his hand casually, and suddenly he felt a different feeling. There was a very slight rebound from the end of the stick, which was not as solid as hitting the ground.
Pushing aside the fallen leaves, I saw a matsutake that had just emerged.
I was quite talented, and I mastered the technique of hitting matsutake mushrooms with a stick in just one go. I was quite proud of myself and dug them up carefully.
I found that this one was quite big, probably about three or four.
Awang randomly knocked and found another one. He did not dig out, but scratched his head. He glanced at Zhao Qin who was admiring the matsutake, and couldn’t help but murmur in his heart.
Matsutake mushrooms are very expensive. The main reason why they are so expensive is of course their rarity.
In the past, during this season, it would have been good to dig out five or six seeds each time they went up the mountain. But today, as soon as they came up, the three of them had already harvested something.
I guess my father’s place must be open as well.
Could it be that Aqin reallyIs he the chosen one, the kind with incredible luck?
Otherwise, how can I explain that with him, I can harvest more than ten kilograms of Cordyceps in a few days, and now, it seems that I can touch the matsutake with a stick.
Just thinking about it, I found another one the next moment.
“Aqin, mine is so big.”
Zhao Qin looked at the second one that Axue dug up, which was nearly 20 centimeters long, and the mushroom part was a circle bigger than a baby’s fist, and laughed.
“What are you laughing at?”
“Not as big as mine.” Zhao Qin said as a matter of course.
Chen Xue seemed to react all of a sudden, and glared at him with a red face, “Not at all normal.”
Zhao Qin innocently took out a mushroom from his back and handed it to her, “Compare it, it’s not as big as mine, how come it’s not normal.”
“Humph, you definitely didn’t mean that just now.”
“What do you mean?”
Chen Xue directly stretched out her hand and pinched his waist lightly, glanced at Awang next to him, indicating that there was an outsider.
“Like cures like, I think I can eat more.”
“What else!”
Zhao Qin smiled, stopped joking, and began to look for matsutake mushrooms.
Awang kept a little distance from the two, but not far away, as far as he could see. Zhao Qin followed Chen Xue all the time, worried that there was a real snake and scared her.
After a while, Zhao Qin dug up five or six, and Chen Xue also dug up three.
It seemed that the harvest was good, and the two did not feel bored. On the contrary, Axue was still very interested, and felt a sense of excitement in participating in treasure hunting.
“Aqin, sister-in-law, let’s take a break in the middle. My dad is there too.”
The three of them didn’t walk far down before they ran into Agu La. Seeing the three of them, Agu La grinned and said, “The market for matsutake mushrooms is good this year. It’s a pity that we found it too late.”
“Dad, don’t even think about picking them. No one is at ease if you go into the mountains alone.”
Sitting down to rest, Zhao Qin first gave Chen Xue a bottle of water, and then the four of them began to eat the food they brought, and they were still sharing their morning earnings.
Agu La had the best earnings, digging more than 30 mushrooms, the small ones weighed more than one or two, and the big ones weighed half a catty, about ten catties.
The three of Zhao Qin and the others together weighed more than 15 catties.
That means the four of them dug more than 20 catties in the morning.
“Agu, how is the market for matsutake now?”
“Not bad. Fresh products can be sold for about 18 yuan per pound, and dried products are probably over 200 yuan. Of course, it depends on the quality. We pick only high-quality products, so the price may be higher.”
The difference between fresh and dried matsutake is so big because it takes 10 pounds of fresh products to produce 1 pound of dried products, and the water loss is very large.
It is difficult to find matsutake that has just emerged.